Senior Fullstack Software Engineer, Authoring Experience

Compensation

Cash Range $224K – $263K • Offers Equity • This role is also eligible for medical benefits, 401(k) plan, and other company perk programs.

At Vanta, our mission is to help businesses earn and prove trust. We believe that security should be monitored and verified continuously, and we empower companies to practice better security and prove it with ease.

What you'll do as a Senior Fullstack Software Engineer at Vanta:

• Own the architecture and rollout strategy for critical platform services, from initial design through large-scale rollout and migration.
• Set the technical bar for how we design, publish, and maintain customer-facing APIs while owning things like security, reliability, and developer experience.
• Stitch together services across Vanta's platform to serve customer-facing use cases, designing clear service boundaries and partnering closely with our data-platform teams on access patterns.
• Raise the written design bar: drive RFCs and decision records that make architectural decisions durable and shared across the team.
• Act as a force multiplier: mentor engineers up to your own level, expand the team's review capacity, and partner with your EM on team health and culture.
• Build with TypeScript and Node.js on the backend, contribute to customer-facing experiences in React, and use AI tools to accelerate development and workflows.

How to be successful in this role:

• 8+ years of backend development building reliable, scalable, fault-tolerant systems.
• You've designed and shipped external or public product APIs: contracts, versioning, authentication, and the developer experience around them.
• You think in service boundaries and system design rather than any single layer of the stack, with enough data-layer fluency to partner well with dedicated platform teams.
• You're comfortable working in a modern frontend codebase (we use React); you don't need to be an expert, but building product end to end is part of the day-to-day here.
• Track record driving complex, ambiguous, multi-quarter initiatives to completion, directly and through others.
• Experience rolling out or deprecating major systems safely at scale.
• Strong written design communication and demonstrated mentorship; you multiply the engineers around you.
• Open to using AI to amplify their skills and strengthen their work - demonstrating curiosity, a willingness to learn, and sound judgment in applying AI responsibly to improve efficiency and impact.

Benefits

• Industry-competitive salary and equity
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, with 100% of employee-only benefit premiums covered for most medical plans
• 16 weeks fully-paid Parental Leave for all new parents
• Health & wellness stipend
• Remote workspace, internet, and cellphone stipend
• Commuter benefits for team members who report to the SF and NYC office
• Family planning benefits
• Matching 401(k) contribution with immediate vesting
• Flexible PTO policy, plus 80 hours of Sick Time
• 11 company-paid holidays
• Virtual team building activities, lunch and learns, and other company-wide events!

Requirements

• Physical location: you must reside in, and perform all work exclusively from within, the United States, accessing systems only from U.S. locations.
• Work Authorization Requirements: You must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship